Hello there, and welcome to the world of Pokémon.
My name is Professor Jacob, and thank you so much for attending
this lecture on Pokémon biology. Joining.
Me. Today is out of the gate with
Dad I'm meeting. With Dad today.
No, no, I didn't. I'm sorry.
I'm so. Tired immediately.
I'm not a Mr. Mime. I'm not your dad.
That's true. I'm sorry, I was going to
chastise you for talking over the.
Professors, I sat very late. I'm sorry, I'm very tired.
We'll get, we'll, we'll, we'll explore that in a second.
Before that, I just want to say I want to throw it to my
teaching assistant, Mr. Curtis. Mr. Curtis, thank you for being
here. How are you today?
I'm so I'm so happy to be here, professor.
And don't feel bad, Corbin. We all think of the professor as
a father figure. OK, He's not your dad, but he is
a father figure, a a mentor, a guide in this, in this world of
Pokémon life. No, no, no, no, no.
No, we, we, we are. We decided against that,
remember. Oh right, it's good, and Porsche
cut this part out, right? Yeah, yeah.
Also joining me here in the classroom today is, of course,
our young trainer in training, Corbin.
Corbin, why did you not sleep well last night?
Why are? You.
Sorry. Why are you so tired?
I guess I don't know if that's why you no.
I didn't see that way I was. I was studying.
A lot, yeah. I was.
I was busy. I was like, really though.
Why Really, though? Actually, why?
Like that was funny how you said studying, but like, really?
Yeah, Don, let's just say, you know, Don has a new Instagram
and I was just, it was very nice.
And I was looking at pictures of her all night and I fell asleep.
We need to. We we should.
I'm your legal guardian here. And I suppose I should you take
some responsibility. And maybe we should, you know,
direct your attention away from Don, I think, Yeah.
You're probably and boundaries. I.
Mean, yeah. I was going crazy.
I was barking at my screen last night.
My. Right, Professor.
I mean, yeah, I was watching, you know, I, I thought what you
were looking at last night on your phone was, you know, a good
example of what, me what, what Corbin should be looking at.
Like, yeah. Well, hold on, what are you
especially because. Cuz I was outside I was outside
I. Remember what was I looking at,
Mr. Curtis? Oh wow, I was hoping you would
share it with Corbin because I was outside your window watching
you. I honestly I was so tired last
night I can't even remember it's but you clearly do remember So
what was it? No, wait, no, you told me, Mr.
Curtis. Do you not remember?
You told me. Do you want me to tell?
It Yeah, yeah, sure. Go right ahead.
Because it was, it was a YouTube video that I, I thought was very
educational. Yeah, it was.
Go ahead and go. Share it with us.
It was apparently you were watching a video on how to build
a crib. What's going on there?
Maybe you want. Maybe you want me as your son.
Well, OK, So what happened was I I looked up how to decorate a
crib and you know, I was trying to use a cool hip lingo for a
house, my crib and they came up with that video and I was
confused. Then I was interested for a
little bit, but then I was like, wait now.
Yeah, 'cause like I was, I was thinking the same thing when I
said out loud, how do you build a crib?
You know, do how do you build it?
Very perplexing. And the answer you'll find is
that we have Pokémon do it for us.
That's right. But we're not talking about
cribs. We're not talking about Corbin's
dawn obsession today. We're not talking about any of
that. Instead, we were talking about
Pokémon before. One more, one more tangent
before we talk about Pokémon. I have a Gengar male here that I
would like to read. No way really.
I do. Yes, for real.
This time can. You bring.
It's always real. So this can come.
Gengar male comes to us from Xander.
They say hello there. Professor Jacob, Mr. Curtis and
Corbin. My name is Alexander or Xander
for short. I've been to Xander or Xander.
So Xander or Xander? Yeah, Xander.
See, we're cool. We, we, we're like, we're like
friends on that level. And that's why we can say Xander
instead of. Alex, hey, yo, say, say we can
do that like. Right now, I don't know.
I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
Sure, Suzie. We'll see.
We'll wait for their next ginger mail and see if they say we can
call them Zaze. Yeah, if I if I can, yeah, If I
can holler, let me know. They say I've been trainer for
quite some time. Hailing from the Hohen region.
I came upon your class as a bonus credit studying to become
a future gym leader. Oh wow, you're gonna replace?
What type? What type?
Yeah. What type?
Well, I think that we might find out.
Your work has been credited to my research.
Oh sorry, has been a credit to my research so much that I've
taken time to travel through the JoJo region in search of my
favorite typing and some pause for effect.
Ba ba Ba ba ba ba. Yeah.
Water. Right.
I know they're from Helen. They probably like water, right?
Yeah, makes sense. It's like what, 70% water?
Yeah, a little bit too much I'd say.
I'd say too much. No, their favorite typing is
dark types. Oh, nice.
OK. All right.
Edge Lord, that's not too bad. Helen could use a dark type gym
leader. And I mean, it's not, it's not,
it's not the best type, I mean, but you know, dark, dark types
are fine, I guess. And what is the best type, Mr.
Curtis? No.
Well, of course it is a fire. Type bug Every day burns very.
Tight, no bug, obviously the best.
Type you guys with the old switcheroo.
I mean, bug types are super effective against dark, I think.
Yep. Yeah, nobody looked that up.
Nobody look it up. And then we have and logic is
logic is pretty good, pretty good so.
Just in general. I love log kicking.
This is not log kicks is bug dark so it's like a no no no no
no. All right, they say.
Xander goes on to say. Professor Jacob, keep up the
good work of keeping Corbin humble.
Whoa, sit down. Be humble.
What do you and they say, Corbin, keep doing what you do
best. If you know, you know.
I don't know if you know, you know what.
Is it saying those blue? How?
Clearly not. Yeah.
Is that was it singing Blues? Absolutely not and misoccurs.
I just wanted to say bug types are absolutely atrocious.
Yeah, they suck, but so do you. What?
Yep. Sir, Sir.
You don't remember his name? It's Sander.
Wow. Yeah.
Very impersonal. Mr. Curtis, their name, we
don't. We don't know if it's a he.
It was. It was Zaza.
But we're not. Not anymore, no.
Now, now it's only now it's only Alexander.
Yeah. Alexander, how dare you?
You know Curry's. Just how dare you?
You get used to people hating on bug types.
Like that's kind of. Yeah.
It's like bug types are known for.
Yeah, they're known for sucking. I don't.
I understand. I just don't understand it.
There's nothing not to love about Bud.
They're gross, nothing to smell bad about.
Buck, that's not true at all. That is not true.
Mike Spinner Axe have a lovely scent.
But they're creepy. They smell like feel weird.
They are. Creepy sweet spring day.
They are. They are creepy, Mr. Curse.
You got to admit they're creepy and also Crawly.
They are crawl. They crawl a lot, but they creep
even more. Come on.
No crawly, yes not. Not creepy though.
Alexander finishes their Gungar mail by saying bye for now.
I will send a report on Tyranitar when I can.
Ciao now I think Tyranitar is going to be a a hot commodity so
if anybody wants to send a essay on on Tyranitar, you.
Better take you to the biggest donation on our next stream.
That will be the one that we saw.
Is that what you said we would agreed upon, Professor is that
was? That what I said.
Oh, OK. I didn't say that at all, but
thank you so much, Alexander for that wonderful Gengar male.
Now I'm going to ask Mr. Curtis, but I can already tell.
I think Ari always going to say Mr. Curtis.
We given Alexander a Gold Star for their hard.
Not, not, not today, no. In fact, I'm deducting 1 Gold
Star. You have a Gold Star deficit,
Alexander. Welcome to the club, buddy.
It's time for you to pay up. Yeah.
OK. So Alexander, we will be
expecting your Gold Star submission here in a little bit.
We will send the we'll send the low and sharpedoes out right to
to, you know. That's right to.
Collect to to motivate you right to to give us the Gold Star here
in a little bit. If any other students would like
to send us like Gengar mail, they can send it to
wwopokemon@gmail.com. You can send an essay on the
Pokémon we're learning about if you would like.
You can send drawings. You can send other forms of
artwork like poems or. Yeah, I'll read them.
Yeah. Or yeah, Corbin.
Corbin is known for reading poems.
I'll do it, I'll do it. He will do it, but thank you so
much for everybody who sent the Gengar mails recently.
They've been different, some good ones, and maybe we'll read
them, I don't know. I don't know.
I don't. Know I think that's enough of
that let's. Move.
Not if they're gonna deface the the beauty that is the bug.
Type. No.
Especially. Especially.
If they say nice things about me, and they're about bad how
bug types are bad, then we're definitely gonna read.
Them I am not your puppet. I don't dance when you ask me
to. I will read whatever e-mail or
Gengar mail I want. Fine, I just want to dance with
somebody. All right, professor.
You're right. Professor, I'm sorry.
All right, does anybody know what Pokémon we're learning
about today? I wanna feel the.
Heat is it decision, right, professor?
Hold on. I think I got distracted.
Corbin, what are you doing? What's happening?
Nothing. No.
Yeah, today is a fire type, right?
It is a fire type, yeah. So it's not just a UI.
Sweet moly, it's Foy Coco, isn't it?
No, we are not learning about if Wacoco today.
Next week do. You think, do you think this bit
that we do every time is fun? Do you, do you think, 'cause I,
I know the virtual students absolutely know what?
They love it. They know burning fact.
They know what we're learning. Yeah.
Is it on the syllabus or something?
The title of the lesson that they clicked on so they
absolutely. Know, yeah, but I'm not reading
that because it's happening in real time for us and post it
later. So, but, and, and how could you
read? How could you read anything?
It's so dark in here. Why, why, Why are the curtains
drawn, Professor? I mean, I don't know.
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't do that.
I honestly, I didn't even notice.
But the question is, why aren't the lights on?
Because we got these cute little lamps on the desks.
Look. Look at.
That Fantic? I like my God, the little
pumpkin Boo lamps. Beautiful.
I love him, Yeah. Well, I have I have a Litwick
lamp I request. Oh, that's very pretty.
I like that. Yeah, thank you.
It tries to steal my soul every so often.
And I have AI have a larvesta lamp.
Mr. Curtis, that is a shoe with wax coming out of it.
What are you? What?
No, that's a Larvesta. That's what he said.
A lamp. OK, so Larvesta lamp.
Sure it is, buddy, Sure is. Shape of a Larvesta.
It's in the shape of ones. Does anybody have any more
guesses for what we're learning about today or.
Hello. Torchic.
Is it a? Is it a slazzle?
No. Oh, OK, I see.
We're all thinking of fire types.
Well, you said it was a fire type.
Yeah, I did think of another. I just there was there was a
crazy long pause that's. Right.
I'm sure, I'm sure our wonderful editor Porsche cut out
completely. No pause.
Oh, but there might be pause. There might be pause.
How many? How many on this little this
little fella? Before pause on this on this
fire fella. Swente.
OK, I'm just gonna say we're learning about Houndour.
Today. No, no.
You were close though. No Houndour.
OK, Houndour's a cool one I'm excited to learn about.
Houndour. Yeah, definitely as Corb.
Have you seen Houndour before? I, I think we saw some in the
woods. We were stranded out there, you
know, last year. Oh God, don't remind me.
Don't. You're gonna, you're gonna give
me PTSD Flash. Yeah, I I know I heard some
Hound dooms and I think I saw some Houndour's running a bow,
but I'm pretty sure don't check the tapes because I can't
remember and I might be wrong but I'm probably right.
But I remember seeing, I think a couple hound doors running past
a Mama hound Doom, you know, again, it was very dark and I
was very scared all. Right.
Well, let's, let's, let's remove any, any hint of doubt here.
So I have, I have a hound door with me today as I normally do.
So let's let's let's take a look.
Oh, look at this little fella. He's cute, but he's also like
kind of grumpy looking. What's his name?
I. Haven't.
That's all business actually I haven't.
Those are those are what I call the business eyes.
The business eyes. Yeah, they're all business.
All business. Look, look, see the face.
That's all business. You're all business over there,
aren't you? Business.
You do look very businessy. Big business boy.
Big. Well, we're not going to call
him big business boy. What?
It's kind of grown on me. Are we sure we can't call him
big? Business.
His name is Meadow's Edge, I've decided.
Meadows. Edge Meadows Edge is the name of
this hound door. All right.
Well, that's fair. All right, now here's a fun
little OK Corbin. Corbin, you please describe
Meadows Edge for the students at home.
Meadows edge here is a four legged little thing with paws.
Can't confirm that that is true. Told you, I told you.
So it has a little nubby tail, and most of its body is kind of
like this dark charcoal color. Now it's snout and its
underbelly are both kind of an orange color.
And then on. Like a light orange.
Yeah. And then on top of its in
between its eyes on kind of on top of its head, it has like
this almost like like it's like a it's like a a white cream
colored eggshell kind of colored like little almost looks like a
little helmet, like half a helmet or.
Something, yeah, it's half a helmet.
It's kind of like it's like a. Little Dome.
Yeah, like shielding for, it's for, it's like.
Yeah, it's like it's the front half of a helmet.
Yeah, so it's got those cute little ears.
Therapist potential. Yeah, it's got similar colored
looking ridges on its back. It's got 2 ridges on its back.
And then it's got like little, like almost rings, four of them
around each end of each leg in front of the paw.
Yeah. And I gotta say, the style is on
point. Great.
This is a very this this a very fashion forward Pokémon here.
It's very, it's a very attractive Pokémon to look at.
Yeah, sure. Do you?
Did you mention it's tail, Corbin?
Tiny little nubby tail. Very.
Cute. Bit of a nub.
Bit of a nub tail. Now you'll notice that Meadow's
Edge here is being very common. Reserved, as Mr. Curry said.
All business. All business.
Yeah, I thought, I thought this. Is face business demeanor?
I've heard they can get a little feisty.
I'm surprised it's so chill right now.
What's Meadows edges deal? Well, so Meadows edge is much
like other hound door are known for howling and barking at the
dawn, but like the morning right is what what they're going for.
What's a good thing the curtains close?
That's so the curtains are closed.
I'm going to open them. And I believe that Meadow's Edge
is going to, you know, start to start to bark and howl and get
really rambunctious. All right.
So OK, are we ready? All right, Yeah.
Pull the curtains and. Corbin.
That's you. Meadow's Edge is not making any
sense. But Corbin, what do you?
What's got you? It all worked, Mr. Curse at the
window. Ohh no, you put a.
Picture of Don. Covers the I had that printed
out last week and I was waiting to hanging up at the right time.
It it covers the entire window and it's just the big old
picture of Don so that illuminates the room.
Ohh. Alright, I guess.
I guess Meadows Edge isn't the only one that barks at Don.
Yeah, that's beautiful. Where did you even get this
photo of Don? This is not.
Probably not really. It's.
On her new Instagram account. Gosh, you not paying attention
to. The cold opening I was I was
thing it had a cold opening. Paying attention to the.
Even cold opening. Excuse me, I I'm going to say
intro bit but. What do you mean intro bit it's
a class. Yeah, we're.
Yeah, well, sometimes it feels like it's not one.
Okay. Roll call you mean?
It's yeah, it's a little little rambunctious times.
But listen, Meadow's Edge is a is a fierce Pokémon and I'm
surprised it's not barking at this picture of Dawn too.
I mean, I don't. No, no, no, Houndor barks at
like, the real dawn here. I'm going to RIP this picture
down. That looks like a real dawn.
No, don't. Why don't you do that?
Oh gosh. Right ears.
Oh oh, I missed the trash can all.
Right. Meadow's Edge.
That's enough. All right.
OK. Oh, yeah.
OK. We pull the blinds down, Miss
Curtis. OK.
No, we really, really listen to the to the the howling and the
barking right now. Hear the different timber and
the the different what? What are you saying?
Do you hear the different tone and timber of the howling and
howling? It's going down and I'm yelling,
Timber howling. It's.
So. Hard to hear you better.
Move. I'm trying you better dance.
Why does that help? OK, I think I think we've had
enough. Mr. Kurz.
Close close the blinds. OK, OK, Yep, Yep, I got to hear
professor. Oh my gosh.
Thank you. Oh, I can finally hear you
again, Professor. That was, that was, that was
something. Yeah, so we got a little bit of
a taste of of hound doors. We're in buxiousness.
He, he's gonna, he looks like he's curling up and his meadows
are just gonna take a little nap here, I think.
Maybe. Aw, goodnight Meadows Edge.
I love that name. It rolls right off the tongue
too. Yeah, Meadows Edge, we can.
We can keep Meadows Edge out I think maybe.
OK. Sure, that's fine.
We could also put Meadows edge back into the pokey ball.
You guys don't seem to like him that much I guess.
I mean, I mean. He kind of he kind of blew my
eardrums out. That was too loud.
I'm afraid I'll do it. Again.
So why don't you just. I don't know.
I mean, I do you like look down though?
It's can I get earplugs and just look at them?
As long as as long as he stays in the back on the on the the
bed in the back, that's OK. It's.
Classic. Can I get some earplugs and I'll
just That way you get the best of both worlds.
You can stay out, but I don't have to.
Hear them? Now you need to listen to me
though, Corbin. Do I need to or do you want me?
To I mean, I guess. You you should.
Never listen to me before, so why start now?
Yeah, I keep telling myself that every lesson.
All right, all right, I'm put. I'm putting Meadows Edge back in
the pokeball, OK? Fine 5 meadows edge.
All right, let's read some Pokedex centuries.
The first one comes to us from the JoJo region.
It says it uses different kind of cries for communicating with
others of its kind and for pursuing its prey.
Okay. Yeah.
So it's. Timbers, different scales nodes,
yeah. Just like how we all talk to
each other with different sounds and syllables and inflections
and stuff. Hound or does the same kind of
thing. Right, exactly.
I lose energy in my voice when I have to talk to Mr. Curtis.
Hey buddy, what's up? I don't know about that, but OK.
If you say so, Mr. Curtis yeah. And I, I do as well, but that's
just to make. I don't want to have excitement
in my voice which gives him excitement because he gets like,
kind of like, really like, way too excited.
Oh, I follow, I, I, I, I try to match your energy at all times.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
Do you're getting? Excited.
Do. You, Curtis?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so excited.
Yeah, yeah. Calm down.
This is really good. Let's bring the energy, OK, OK,
a little bit. I'll sit down up there, OK?
Professor, you need to calm him down.
Mr. Curtis, you need to chill out, OK?
Wow. And that and that is showing and
not telling, I believe. Yes.
All right. The next entry says they corner
prey. Sorry, two corner prey.
They check each other's location using barks that only they can
understand. Using Find my Hound door.
Sorry. Do you have location tracking on
on your hound door and by that does it bark?
Found by hound door. That's what do it bark.
I love I love that though they check each others location using
barks that only they can understand as if as if like them
barking doesn't also just tell everybody what their location
is. Oh, you're over there.
OK. That's true, but maybe they can
throw their voice. It's like he's like bark bark.
I'm hiding under this log bark bark.
Bark, bark. Then everyone listening, he's
like, I don't know what they're saying, but I think he's hiding
under this log. He's.
Right under. This log they're going to know
anyway. No, don't worry, They can't
understand us. We're using a special language
only we can understand. Yeah.
Hey, don't, don't tell them to look over here because I'm
hiding under this one and then. They can't understand me.
Oh, you found me? How?
How, how did you found? Oh, they speak outdoor.
They broke our code. All right, that's the mainframe,
The next entry says around dawn. It's ominous.
Howl echoes the area to announce that this is its territory.
Yeah, I think I heard a little bit of howling in there.
Yeah, a little bit of howling for sure.
Corman also howled at dawn. I.
But his was a different type of dawn.
His was the picture of dawn. That's back up right now.
Now he put. His I put.
The poster up himself. Please tape it and put it back
up. Now I don't, I don't have the
time. God.
All right, fine, Mr. Critters. Tape this, tape this drawing
back up and put it back. On the no professor, don't make
me do it. Do you want to do it?
You want to do it? Yeah, Do it, Mr. Chris.
Yeah, do it for you, professor. Here you go, here you go.
Have some tape. Don't eat the.
Tape This time I got the tape right here.
But don't eat it. I see you putting it to your
mouth. Don't eat it.
I will. I'm just gonna.
I'm gonna pull it out right now. I'm gonna start working on it.
Don't be careful pulling it out, it's not very safe method OK
for. This up in just so many pieces.
Yeah, that's yeah work cut out for you there, buddy.
Yeah, that's. Probably going to take you the
rest of the lesson. Probably it's.
Like it's like 30 two different pieces over.
Here if you could, you can't do it closer to the recording
device. Yeah, people want to hear
ripping and tearing for the next half.
He's not ripping it. No, he's he's.
Taping if you want to hear taping in the microphone to the
next step. But they want to, they don't
want to hear me like, you know, pull the tape off the spool like
this so that it, you know, see how disruptive.
That is, yeah, that's annoying. So like.
Yeah, wait. Do it again.
God, yeah. No, nobody wants to hear that.
All right, fine, fine. All right.
You can stay over there, but make sure you talk loud enough
for us to hear us talk at a volume where it would sound like
you are. I don't know, right next to the
recording device. Sounds good, professor.
OK, great. Perfect.
Still sounds like you're far away, but whatever.
All right, moving on to the Hoenn region.
The first entry says how door it hunt as court.
Let me get a clean take on that. Again, get a clean take on that
professor. Hound Door hunt as a coordinated
pack, they communicate with each other, using a variety of cries
to corner their prey. This Pokémon's remarkable
teamwork is unparalleled. You know, I feel like you 2
could learn a thing or two from Hound Door to, you know, work as
a team. We have.
We've done like so many skits and instructional videos now.
I mean, gosh, we could release a whole box tape of all everything
we've done together. I'm done.
I'm tapped out. Yeah, I.
They all kind of suck, don't they, huh?
Yeah, they. Do I listen?
I just feel like it, it, it this is.
I have to always remind myself this is a learning experience
for Corbin. And you know, it's not always
it's it's not always about like, you know, me having to like
super over exceed as long as Corbin succeeds.
And that's at the end of the day, you don't.
Believe that. Yeah, we're still.
We're still striving for that, to maybe get there at one point
where Corbin succeeds. We're really hoping for it.
Good thing it's at the end of the Johto region.
Ha ha, I can't wait. At the end of the Johto region.
It's insight, honestly. Yeah, it's coming, and that's
when I get my trainer's license. That's when wait, no no is.
That what happens. No, that's not what happens.
Well, maybe if he can pass a 300 question test and get 100% on
it. Well, what does that mean?
Somebody, somebody wrote on my locker the other day.
It ends at the end of Johto. What does that mean?
What is it? Wait, you have a locker?
Yeah, but it was written in like red paint.
It could have been blood, I don't know.
I didn't stick. Around to find out.
Did you taste it? I did.
You. Was it specifically on your
locker? It was on my locker alone.
Wow. You shouldn't put random red
dyes in your mouth, Corbin. It's not wise.
Hold on, I'm gonna hold on. I didn't walk out.
I'm just gonna take a look cuz I know.
I think your locker is right out the door, right?
Let me take a look at it. Yeah, you see it.
Yeah, that it looks like your handwriting actually did you
write? That on there yourself.
No, I wouldn't have. What would I have written that?
That doesn't make any sense. I'm being accused of things.
That looks like your blood too, Corbin.
Your blood is very unique. I can recognize it from a mile
away. That's weird.
That's. Weird, so much my.
Blood that may be weirder than anything Mr. Curtis has ever
said. You just get cut and scratched
and beat up so much in this class.
I've seen it a lot. Yeah, that's that's true.
And it's it's mostly your fault. You're supposed to be my
guardian. I wasn't your guardian in the
Canto region. Well, that's because I didn't
have my mom there. I mean, I did in Canto, but I
don't hear. So now they apparently need you
to be my guardian. Yeah, yeah.
I'm not. I really was not.
I'm really not good at that job. I was not built for that.
I got too many lessons to teach. All right, moving on to the Sino
region. There's only one entry in the
Hoen region. This one in Sino says it conveys
its feelings using different cries.
It works in a pack to cleverly take down prey.
I wonder if, like, you catch a hound door and you're training
it like, you're kind of like, taking it away from its pack,
right? I mean, yeah, Like, I feel like,
I feel like that would make the hound door kind of sad and feel
like it's, you know, and also kind of like really hamper the
ability of that pack to take down prey because now they're
missing one of their members. Yeah, You know, sometimes you
find yourself with a group of individuals that, you know,
maybe, maybe they're not your first choice, but you're the
one. They're the ones you're with and
and and you know, you just make the best you can do.
You make the best you can do. And I'm sorry, is that is that
like, are you wait, are you agreeing with me that they'll be
sad Or are you saying that, you know, found family is better or
something? The family that stole you from
the wild. Yeah, that's we call that
Stockholm syndrome. The family is the the.
Hound doors that we've made along the way.
The the wonderful mentor father figure and the unwelcome red
headed stepchild or purple headed step child we've met
along the way. That doesn't run.
That doesn't sound as well on AT Shirt I don't think.
Yeah, Kate put that in T-shirt form, Mr. Curtis.
Yeah, OK. Family is the the father figure.
To the. Purple haired step stepchild. 2
steps. Along the way.
That was it. That was the exact same way you
said the first time. And yeah, look out for those
T-shirts. You'll find them on our merch
store, WWO Pokémon at shirt.gov. Yeah, we got a government URL.
We just certainly don't. Let's just say.
The Patreon has been Kick it off we.
Got a yes, Mr. Curtis, we. Gotthat.gov money now y'all.
What's up? Yeah, it was at shirt.gov,
right. So we have a, we have a e-mail
address as a URL that's also government URL.
No, no, no, no, no. It's wwlpokemonat@soatshirt.gov.
Shirt. Dot Yeah, at shirt.gov.
Go ahead and put that in your browser and see what it gets
you. We're not responsible for any
viruses that download to your device.
All right, moving on. The next entry here says it's
smart enough to hunt in packs. It uses a variety of cries for
communicating with others. Where?
Where that means that means he's
hungry. Where that means I'm over here.
Oh, that means he's. That means he's hiding under a
lock. Where where that means I'm tired
and I want to go to bed. I'm.
Tired where? Where that's that means I
skinned my leg and I'm actually crying.
Yeah, oh, that one. That one's very distinct.
Oh, no, Professor, do you want me to get Rosalyn?
No, I was just. I was just, I was just, you
know, displaying it or. He was playing pretend, Mr.
Crimmin. Training.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just indicating, you know
what it would sound like if I was crying because I skinned.
My yeah, he was making a funny Mr. Curtis.
I got you, I got you, I got you. I'm so sorry for.
That all right? There's nothing new from that.
Well, OK, I'll come down. Corbin.
There's nothing new from the you know, region, and there's
nothing new from the Kalos region, and there's an entry
here from the Alola region. It says it cooperates with
others skillfully when it becomes your partner.
It's very loyal to you as its trainer and will obey your
orders. You know, unlike other Pokémon
that don't obey your orders. Well, sometimes they don't.
Sometimes they can be a little fussy and rebellious.
I mean, yeah, I guess someone like the stronger Pokémon, if
you don't have a lot of Badgers, they don't respect you.
But. Yeah, it's kind of like how you
feel about me. You don't respect me.
Oh, absolutely. Why would I respect you?
What have you done? Yeah, I mean, you have to.
You've been to jail like twice. Yeah, that's hard.
You got to respect hard people. Nah, you got.
To finish the class at least two times before the professor
respects you. He and he didn't even respect
me. Then he didn't respect me till
the third time I finished the class.
Wow, yeah, that's crazy. I'm so shocked.
Yeah, I definitely respect him now.
Yep. Why are you winking exactly?
That's not winking. That's.
Not my eye. You have see this see this level
of respect between me and the professor.
Get away from me. That's I'm trying to put your
arm around. Stop you.
Gross. Your.
Way you're what? Stop, Go sit down.
No, go, sit down. I ran out, I ran out of tape.
So I started using glue. That's why I've got take all
your. Stuff to.
Me get a room, with me get a room, ha ha.
God, he put his arm around me and I'm He's stuck.
Oh, professor, we're this is the this is the respect and the the
bond between us right here. I said, I said bond is bond.
Get it? Because so.
What is? Happening.
I don't know. It's not funny though.
Push him away. The glue.
The glue is bonding. I thought he.
Was going to stay with the whole rest of the lesson.
I know when that that went wild. All right.
The the last injury in the Alola region says they make repeated
eerie howls before dawn to call attention to their pack.
But I don't want to call attention.
I thought they were trying to communicate with each other.
Yeah. Alola, get it together.
Alola what? What do your hound door have the
other ones don't have. Come on, tell.
US, well, they're not going to tell us.
There aren't any other Alola entries.
There's no new Gala entries and there's no new Hisui entries.
And Paul Deya kind of repeats what we've already seen.
So I know nothing, nothing new here.
There is actually that does it for the regional entries.
So we'll move on to the unique entries.
There's one from Ash. It says Houndor, the dark
Pokémon Houndor travel in packs and communicate through barks in
order to surround their prey. Yeah, and then there's only one
more. There's one more unique entry
comes to us from Professor Neroli.
Oh, it's been a while since we've heard from Tortellini.
Stromboli, Professor Stromboli. Professor Stromboli, he says
Houndor communicates with its fellows using a variety of
cries. It has also been found howling
in it's sleep, as if perhaps dreaming that is out hunting
with the rest of the pack. Oh, that's pretty sweet.
Now, how would Professor Calzone know that though?
He he studies Pokémon sleeping. Yeah, but how does he know that
what it's dreaming about? There's no way.
Well. He said it's it's an educated
guess. He says it's perhaps dreaming.
That is hunting. Hunting with the rest of the
pack. Gotcha.
A theory if you I. Believe that we can trust
Professor Rigatoni's assumptions on.
This, I mean, listen, this guy watches Pokémon sleep and that's
for sure. If there's one person I would
imagine could tell us about what a Pokémon dream is about, it's
Professor Rigatoni. All right, that's going to do it
for the Pokedex entries for Houndor.
Let's move on to the testing portion of the.
Lesson stop. Barking.
Stop barking is this. Unlistable yet?
Let's know in the comments. Portion will make it listenable
I'm sure. Rotom Laptop.
No, no, no. So I know you guys are going to
be both. Excited you don't like your
Rotom laptop while you're barking at it?
No, no, no, that's a that's a that's a bargain agreement.
Rotom laptop. No, poke it up.
So. Wait, I guess you can get your
Rotom laptop out if you want, but today we're doing a debate.
That's all you want to. Do Professor.
Yeah. We can't do a, we can't do a
quiz, professor. No, we can't because I didn't
make. One no.
I'm going to drag your butt through this debate, buddy.
No. I'm going to give you the topic,
and then I'm going to let Mr. Curtis decide if he wants to
defend or go against that topic. Yeah.
And then if he decides to defend it.
Wait. No, hold on, Hold on.
Wait. Strike that.
Reverse it. I'm going to let Mr. Curtis
decide if he wants to go first or second.
All right. And then if he decides to go
seconds, I'm going to let Corbin decide which if he wants to
defend or the topic or go against it.
Does that make sense? Does that make sense?
It's yeah, it's. Crazy how well I followed that.
OK, great. Here.
OK, here's the debate topic. Sure.
Goldenrod City should be allocating funds to the Police
Department to train Houndor to assist police officers.
Mr. Kurtz, would you like to go first or second?
I think I will give Corbin the benefit of going first, so I
will go second. All right.
So then that means if I if I remember this correctly, you
decide if you want to defend? It Corbin.
Corbin. We'll let Corbin decide then if
he wants to defend it or go against it.
Goldenrod City should be allocating funds to the Police
Department to train hound orders, assist officers, so I'm.
That is saying how well you remembered what.
I I did write it down very quickly now.
So I'm deciding whether you're saying that I can choose whether
or not to defend that argument or to attack it.
Yeah, oppose. It would be the normal word
that. I like attacking it.
Okay, attack. It I'm gonna say defend it.
OK, so you are saying that we should allocate funds to police
officers to train hound doors? Yes.
OK, all right, so let me just before we get started, before I
set them away, I'm going to give you guys the debate rubric.
First you must include, well first point is you must include
information we learned in class. 2nd is you must demonstrate an
understanding of the Pokemons unique attributes and abilities.
Three, you must build an argument around proven facts
about the Pokémon. And four, you must respond to at
least one of the opponent's arguments with a legitimate
counter argument. All right, we all know what
we're doing. We all know what side we're on.
That's.
Right, I'm against the use of hound doors as public police
escort. There he goes.
He got it. Alright, go ahead.
Take your time. Right.
Rig. Rig.
Good debate structure. I'm looking forward to it.
I'll try, it's been a while. Been a while.
Hey, we're here.
Everyone's awake. OK, yeah, sorry we're a quick
nap. It's pretty warm in here because
I don't know if you guys remember but the headmatress is
trying to keep the AC to a minimum.
So in here every other week now because it gets so hot.
Yeah, we close. Actually, can we close the
blinds again? It's making it way warmer in
here. Sure professor, let me, let me.
And here I finished the poster. There you go.
Don't, don't, don't look at it, Corbin.
No, I just wait. I'm just gonna.
We all want you to start barking the window real.
Wait, no, that doesn't even look like carb.
That's all mixed around and that's her nose is connected to
her ear. What is going on with?
This don't worry about it here, I'll just put let me just put it
up in the window real quick. Oh, I'll close the curtains and
and you don't. You don't have.
To it's or it's. It's like a, it's like a, it's
like a body horror, honestly. Like, yeah, her mouth is where
her ears are her. It's really.
Graphic. I can't imagine somebody trying
to draw this and send it to. Us.
I did. I did my best.
I was all the way over, all the way over there.
And why does it look like she's bleeding?
Yeah, why is she suffering? How is how is it like?
Yeah, like that's definitely she's been.
On the inside more than the outside.
Like, but her expression too though, is like it.
Like it's hard to tell 'cause everything.
About her, right? But it looks, yeah, she looks
like she's having like a she's distressed, Yeah.
That's just the the red paste that I used when I ran out of
tape. It's red like blood, but it's
not blood. It's just, you know, OK, gotcha.
Well, looks like she's warping into another dimension, so.
OK, it's defined. We're hiding there behind the
curtain now. Why don't you hang it up?
OK, whatever, who cares anyways? OK, if you wanna take it away
here, you wanna give us your opening statement.
I'm gonna. Take it away.
Okay, all right, so I am defending the point that
Goldenrod City should be allocating funds to the Police
Department to train Houndor to assist with police officers.
First of all, thank you everybody for here, for coming
here. Professor, thank you very much
for instilling. This wow wow.
Filing for time. Filing for time.
So. First of all, I'd.
Like to say that, you know, I think it makes a lot of sense
for Houndor to be used in the police force and for a number of
reasons. First of all, their ability to
communicate with other Houndor with their specific calls can be
very useful. They can relay cryptic messages
if needed. So like let's say they're trying
to, there's a warrant out for somebody's arrest and they don't
want the perpetrator to know that they're coming to the house
or something like that. A team of hound doors can kind
of talk to each other and communicate to the human police
officers kind of coordinating how to, you know, conduct this
like arrest or raid or whatever you want to call it.
So for a lot of reasons like that, I think having us being
able to speak to you, the other Houndor from like the another
team are very, very useful. They can also relay messages a
lot faster. So let's say you know, one
police officer, it tells Hound Doom something.
He's going to relate it to another police officer.
That Hound is going to get from point A to point BA lot faster
than just a human wood running. And also they are a lot safer
for Honduras to explore risky situation and report back then
is for a human because they can defend themselves.
They obviously have powers like all Pokémon do, so it's a lot
better for them to defend themselves.
They can also relay specific location messages to Houndor.
Again, going back to the communication thing, locations
is no thing in there because it was in the Pokedex and I figured
the professor would like that. So it goes back to my point.
And then, yeah, they're also just great partners to have and
they're very loyal and they obey orders very well.
And that's exactly what you need in a partner.
So. And that is my opening pitch,
and you cannot argue against it. Good luck.
OK, excellent job. Hey, you got a lot of good
points in there, Corbin. Thank you.
Let's see. Let's see if Mr. Curtis can can
roll with with his argument here.
Got it. Mr. Curtis, you can make your
opening statement and then also you can respond to Corbin's
opening statement. All right.
Thank you, professor. Yes, good mid morning and thank
you professor. What's up the accent dude?
Yeah he is cuz he hasn't taken a sip from the SAP.
Sip from the SAP. OK, there we go.
Goodwood T-shirt that says have you?
Have you sipped your SAP this morning?
Yep, that's such a good, such a good T-shirt idea, Professor.
Write that. Write that down, Corbin, Write
that down. Right, Corbin, I said.
Write that down. You're my boss or my dad, but
already wrote. It down.
OK, good. Thank you.
All right.
Thank you, Professor and Corbin for joining me today.
You bet. You bet, buddy.
Even though, even though you're wrong, what I'm happy to tell
you here all why Houndor would not be a good Pokémon and not
worth spending the money to recruit for the Goldenrod City
Pokie Police. First of all, they're known for
their repeated House Before Dawn, purposely used to draw
attention. Not only is this annoying and
disruptive to the citizens that you're sworn to protect who are
trying to sleep there in the early dawn, but it could also
blow your cover on a stakeout, alerting a perpetrator to your
whereabouts, which is which is not always great.
I mean, you know, police sometimes need to be sneaky to
catch someone in the act. And if they're walking around
broadcasting their position all the time, that's, that's not
really conducive. Secondly, why they may have
unique house used to communicate?
The Pokedex says clear as day only other hound doors
understand them, which is not conducive to A to a pokey
partner and A and a human police officer relationship.
Sure, the hound doors can and this kind of goes into my
response to Corbin. Sure, the hound doors can
communicate well with each other, but what good is the
relaying information between hound doors if all that just
sounds like gibberish to the to the to the human partners that
they work with? Thank you very much.
OK. All right.
So you responded to Corbin by saying I won't go, I won't go
over it, but you responded and you brought some of your own
points as well. All right, Corbin, so now you
can respond to Mr. Curtis's opening statement and their
response, and then you can make your closing statement.
All right, got it. Make sure, please, please, in
your closing statement. No responses, just just a
closing statement. All right, so here, here we go.
First, my response, I'm going to address all of Mr. Curtis's
points and I'm going to step on them and obliterate them.
So first of all, he was talking about the howling in the morning
being a problem. This very simple solution to
that, keep them inside. Don't let them run outside and
wake up people. Just keep them inside.
I'm sure they have a place, a nice, if you can afford these
puppers, you can definitely afford a nice little place to
put them inside the police station that is, that is
soundproof. So that's not a problem at all.
So Mr. Curtis also mentioned that, you know, having them ruin
the location or ruin their stealth during a stake out could
be a problem. Very simple solution to that.
Don't do a stake out right at dawn.
Just plan accordingly. Make sure it's not like right
that 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the morning range.
Do a stake out any other time during the day.
Very simple. And also maybe I didn't relay
what I was trying to say very well the first time because Mr.
Curtis was saying that, you know, it's basically just
gibberish to non Houndor, right? Them relaying messages to each
other what I meant. Was is this the response?
This is still a response. This is all a response.
This is still a response, Yes, because he was saying that they
can't relay information well because only the Houndor can
speak to each other and to anybody else it sounds like
gibberish. My thing is, if you have
Houndor, if you have like two different teams split up and
they're doing a stake out of the trying to get to somebody's
house. Let's say there's some sort of
like, you know, tactical mission they have to do.
And let's say they have a plan to flank the house on the left.
But oh, something unexpected happens.
Some bad guys come out of the house that way.
How do they relay that information to the other team
without spoiling their, you know, whatever.
So the hound door can just like kind of bark and they're just
going to think, oh, it's just some random persons, you know,
Pokémon just bark and they're not going to think anything of
it because they're not expecting to be, you know, stalked by the
police or arrested or whatever. So that they can relate for
information to the other hound door who's and going to lead the
other team in the right direction.
Like they don't have to speak the language.
The Houndor can like guide them based off of whatever
information the Houndor on the other side of the house told
them. Does that make sense?
Because it makes sense in my head.
I feel like it does make sense. But anyways, that's my that's
all I have to say about that. I think that Houndor would be
great and I think we should give every single cent this month
from the Patreon to the local Golden Rod City Police
Department. Thank you very much.
OK, interesting closing statement.
All right, Mr. Curtis, you can now make your closing statement.
Your time for response is over, so only a closing statement
please. Thank you.
While they are very loyal, a Pokémon used by an officer Jenny
is meant to be a partner. They're not just there to take
orders, but to give and to take. And they can't give and take if
they can't communicate. Thank you very much.
Wait, it sounded like that? You were done.
Sounds like a second. Closing, What the heck that that
good? What good is having all those
unique barks and communication if it's no good for the non
hound door partner they work with?
That's all I'm saying. We already have solid proven
partner Pokémon for pull up poke police, growless spinner racks,
ones that don't have to be locked.
Up in the. Morning and can can be out at
all hours of the day. The spinner rack of Catalia City
have been servicing the pokey police for there for the last
100 years and they have had no. Problem.
Thank you very much. All right, OK, very good.
Very good to the both of you. So yeah, you guys both included
information we learned in class. Very good.
You both talked about how they like howl at dawn and how they
like how to communicate. Corbin, you mentioned that they
are extremely loyal. Very good.
Mr. Curtis, you included the fact that their howls are
incessant and can be annoying to onlookers and disrupt the peace.
Very good. Now, Corbin, you mentioned that
they're better to use than humans because they're strong, I
think is what you said. Well, like, they're like, OK, so
like if, if there's like a perpetrator, right, and you're
going to go into a house because you think somebody there might
be like a violent person with like a gun or something, you
probably, I feel like it's probably safer to send in, you
know, the Pokémon who can breathe fire and take a ton of
damage other than just a person with a gun.
We never really talked about hound doors ability to breathe
fire and whether or not that they're particularly strong.
In fact, I would argue the fact that they that they need a team,
they need they need a pack to take down 1 prey kind of
indicates that by themselves they're not that strong.
So I think this kind of demonstrates maybe a
misunderstanding of the pokemons unique attributes.
And I think you don't understand their abilities and why I think
dare a little bit confused. Dare.
I'm always confused. I don't know.
I look in the morning every. I look in the mirror every
morning and I say, how did you get here?
I know, same. I've been saying that for 10
years. What, what path?
What? What Whose path did you cross to
to end up in this in this nightmare scenario?
Yeah, call that the butter free effect.
You know, you step on a wing and something happens.
I brush my teeth when I get up and I come here to teach you
guys, and then I come here and I take half a point away from you,
Corbin, for I'll give you. I'll give you.
Yeah. So a 3.5 two out of four for
this one. Corbin or Mr. Curtis, you did
fine on this part. All right, so let's see here.
You guys both I think provided very good arguments.
Honestly, I was, I was a little bit worried that this topic was
a bit esoteric, but I think you guys did very good.
Me too. Well, regardless, you you fought
through it and brought some good points.
I'm not. So you guys get full points for
the last two, the last two points of the rubric.
Good job. And it's not my job to say who
won the debate. It's not.
I'm not going to sit here and say that Mister Curtis
absolutely did a much better job than Corbin did.
I'm not going to say that regardless if it's true or not.
Whoa, hold on. It's up to you, the virtual
students at home to to, you know, comment on on this, on
this lesson on Spotify. God, and tell us what you think.
Who won? Did Corbin win Mr. Curtis?
Win the poll. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. I'm surprised we did so well
too, with this being such an isometric question.
You're right. Or debate.
An isometric. An isomeric.
OK, but that's gonna do it for today's lesson.
And unfortunately, I must. I must wait 2 full weeks before
we can come back here and do another lesson.
I know. Does anybody know who we're
gonna be hearing about when we do?
Week Blue. I know a darn you, headmistress
for for this modified teaching schedule.
I hate that this is completely out of our control.
I know let's say guys are mad about this.
Let let the headmistress know. We'll we'll we'll convey your
anger towards. It maybe if you go on Patreon
and help out with the school maybe they'll we'll have enough
to get a new AC unit or something.
Hey, hey Corbin, what did I say about begging for money?
Oh, sorry, please. All right, does anybody know who
we're going to be learning about the next time we have class?
Doom. Right it is.
Very good, Corbin. Excellent job.
No, wait, hold on. Sorry.
Sorry, sorry. Mr. Curious, what were you going
to say? I said was it decidui but.
No, we're not learning about to join next week.
We are in fact learning about Hound Doom.
That's right. So sorry, not next week.
It's just it's just so it's just so ingrained in me to say next
week, next time we are learning about Hound Doom.
But that's going to do it for today's lesson.
Before I go, Corbin, would you like to tell the virtual
students something, anything, everything potentially that you
like about them? YouTube channel that we have.
So the MU tube channel has a little bit of everything because
number one, it has all the lessons on there.
You could probably be. You're probably weird enough
that you're listening to this on YouTube instead of like Spotify
Gon. Yeah, yeah, Call our virtual
students weird, Corbin. That's they're nailing it.
Weird you're you're listening to this on YouTube.
Who does that with the spot, with with the lesson?
Yeah. And if you do that, if you do
that comment, make a, make a comment on that.
Comment on YouTube, listen if you're listening on there on
YouTube, tell us we're weird. How not weird you are?
Explain yourself. But here's the thing, YouTube,
it has all of it. It has the lessons.
It has the Nuz Lock for free. You don't need to go in on
Patreon for it, but you can watch two weeks early on
Patreon. Free and no ads.
Free and there's no ads because we're not monetized yet.
Coming soon, help us 5 subscribers.
And yeah, we also have like clips and stuff on there too.
So it's got a little bit of everything.
And also the most important part about the YouTube is that we can
stream on Sundays at 7:00 PM. So you got streams, you got the
nose lock, you got, you got the lessons, you got everything you
could want on there. It's perfect.
Everything, everything under the sun, Mr. Curtis, there's.
One thing that's not on there that is take it away so so vital
and beautiful and you can and it can only be found on the Patreon
for all of our our our good patrons.
Can you guess what that is Corbin?
It's. Your stupid doodles and no one
likes. Bloopers and outdoors.
It's my doodles. Beautiful doodles.
Except for, I'm sorry to say, Houndor's in inferior a form did
not did not grace well in this doodle.
So this doodle is a real stinker this time piece.
Of honestly, those are the best. We could all agree that those
are the best. It's a it's a real stinker this
time around, but also you can find many cool things on our
Patreon, like our our question and answer segments and our
bloopers and outtakes from Take Them Out We.
Don't have a nail. What are you talking about?
Bloopers? And now it takes Mr. Curtis.
This is a class. We don't edit anything here.
Well, I was just gonna say. I mean while the professor is
perfect and never makes any mistakes.
True it is. Haven't yet.
It is Corbin and I. We're we're little.
Stinkers. Sometimes you can't be.
We're like Hound Door. We're stinkers.
Stinkers. We don't.
We don't always get it right. And so when we don't, and you
know, our, our good editor Porsche thinks they're funny,
they put them together in a compilation, right?
And they share them with you all.
Yeah, and delivers them to you. But yes, you can find links to
the YouTube, to the Patreon, to our Blue sky, to the discord
maybe. Discord's in there, yeah.
Yeah, Discord, yeah, you can find links to that on the link
in our description on wherever you're wherever you're listening
to this. Wherever if you're weird on
YouTube where I am probably there too, sorry.
Good. Probably.
I don't know. I don't.
I don't check that stuff. I don't either.
Who does? Porsche, probably, but that's
going to do it for today's lesson.
So until next time class is dismissed, Porsche cut that out.
Cut that cut out when he said that.